Rights Quotes

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

I was somewhat confused when senator [Bernie] Sanders said, well, you know, Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign, they're part of the establishment.

[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again.

Does John Kerry have to give them [Iran] every little thing? You'll pass some sanctions for human rights and missiles, and I'll grudgingly sign on.

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.

I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

Canada does not just 'go along' in order to 'get along.' We will 'go along,' only if we 'go' in a direction that advances Canada’s values: freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

I've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are.

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.

[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

China will certainly pay more attention to human rights.

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review process, poses issues of equality in a practical venue.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.